Paris Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3354

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Fr29
Location	Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal
Siglum/Shelfmark	3354 (formerly 245 B. L. F.)
Page/Folio range	3r-58v

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum)	Overlap of Versions A and L
└ Language Group within Version	French A/L Overlap
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)

Languages
Language of text	Old French
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions	Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006)

Note
Note on grouping: - Runte (2014) lists this as a Version A text. - Arlima lists this as a Version A text (following Runte). - Coco (2016) lists this as a Version A text (following Arlima). - JONAS lists this as a Version L text, possibly following Aïache-Berne. - Gaston Paris (1876) says, 'Je ne puis m’expliquer la composition de ce texte qu’en admettant que le copiste avait à sa disposition un ms. de L fort endommagé vers la fin.’ Paris continues, noting that the story ''Filia'' is missing, replaced with an allusion to ''Sapientes'', and that despite following L closely for the majority of the text, the end of the narrative exactly mirrors the details and structure of A instead.

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1400 - 1500
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	BNF catalogue: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc840610

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	118
Height	292
Width	194
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	3 - 58v: Sept Sages de Rome 59 - 60: Débat de l'amoureux et de la mort 60r - 109r: Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne 115v - 118v: Office de connétable

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Paris (1876), Le Roux de Lincy (1838), Coco (2016), Berne-Aïache (1966), Berne-Aïache (1977), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Foehr-Janssens (1994)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation
Arbor	1	Empress
Canis	2	Bancillas	Baucillas
Aper	3	Empress
Medicus	4	Ancilles	Auguste (?)
Gaza	5	Empress
Puteus	6	Lentulus
Senescalcus	7	Empress